Istria, late frames off six hives last week — a mixed autumn honey, plenty of it, but the refractometer says 19.0% on the uncapped bits and 18.4% even on the capped frame…
Spring check-in from Minas Gerais. The eucalyptus plantations around my apiary are opening and my twelve Africanized colonies have exploded in the last three weeks — the …
Devon, fourth year, and my late supers came off last week with a good chunk of ivy in them. Ivy honey sets like concrete — the two buckets I extracted on Saturday are alr…
Devon, fourth year, six colonies. The last supers need to come off this week before the ivy gets going and the bees start crossing back up with it. Trouble is the weather…
Second year in İzmir, four hives. In August I bottled about sixty jars of my summer honey — mostly cotton and thyme from what's around us. They sat in the pantry and now …
Pulled the propolis mats off all twelve hives in Istria this week, the end of a season that started in early June. Method, for anyone curious: plastic mesh trap mats unde…
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